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Amarok, Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10, Bluetooth and Sony MBR-100 Audio Receiver

As we all know Amarok is the best music player in the world, and it’s free. It’s only available on Linux at the moment but the devs are working hard to port it to Windows. Anyway I digress. I wanted to explain how I got Amarok playing on my laptop, accessing my music collection on [...]

Posted on October 25, 2008 at 1:23 pm by mcmlxxii · Permalink · 9 Comments
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RT73 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

If you’ve used the Ralink RT73 chipset under Ubuntu for any length of time, you’ll know that the default drivers aren’t yet perfect (some supporting evidence). Some may have had more success, but in my experience they drop out regularly and transfer rates are pretty mediocre. The modules used are the rt2x00usb and rt73usb. These [...]

Posted on October 22, 2008 at 10:41 pm by mcmlxxii · Permalink · 15 Comments
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